Rev. Dr. Chris Antal.

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What is Moral Injury and how does it manifest in military veterans? Why should we care? What interventions show promise? How might congregations better respond?

Rev. Dr. Chris Antal is a clinical staff chaplain at the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, a former Army chaplain, and Veteran of the U.S. War in Afghanistan. While deployed in 2012 he established a Unitarian congregation at Kandahar Airfield, where he preached a sermon the Army determined was “politically inflammatory” and responded with an official reprimand and release from active duty. His public resignation of his officer commission in protest in 2016 was reported in media outlets around the world. He is a pioneer in addressing military moral injury and has published about his work in several peer reviewed journals.